Description
Aesthetics can be manifested both as vulnerability and as a tool of securitization of the states. Through aesthetic practices, states may appear differently than it otherwise would as aesthetics can be something to hide the imperfections as well as an aspiration for achieving beauty. Thus, aesthetics may not be just something to hide the insecurities but be an aspiration to become. This paper will investigate the identity-related stability application of ontological security and try to conceptualize aesthetics as an emancipatory agency. In other words, it will investigate aesthetics as hopeful and aesthetic representation as an aspirational dimension of ontological security. Therefore, it asks how the practice of aesthetics play out in the self-creation and identity construction of a state? As our being is stretched over temporal and spatial dimensions that is subjected to change and, thus if we are to distinguish the fragments of our identities of past, current and future, what role does aesthetics play when we label identity something as a yearning, missing and in the revival of the lost identity. Would aesthetics become a tool to bridge the yearning part of our identity and the identity that we aspire to become? Can aesthetically represented cultural productions constitute a spatial context in which routine of a nation’s existence are performed?
